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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Joseph Stepansky, Maziar Motamedi

Israel-Gaza war on US campuses: Why are top university leaders under fire?

Harvard President Claudine Gay speaks during a hearing of the House Committee on Education [File: Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo]

Leaders at the three top universities in the United States have faced calls to resign after their testimony before a congressional hearing on campus anti-Semitism set off a firestorm of criticism.

On Tuesday, Harvard University announced it would keep political scientist Claudine Gay as its president, after her counterpart at the University of Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Magill, stepped down over the weekend.

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